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“It is what I tell her that she will do”: a mixed methods study of married men’s knowledge and attitude towards supporting their wives’ cervical cancer screening in rural South-East Nigeria
INTRODUCTION: cervical cancer is a leading cause of death among Nigerian women. Women often require spousal support before attending cervical cancer screening services. This study assessed married men´s knowledge and attitude towards male involvement in cervical cancer screening of their wives. METH...
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The African Field Epidemiology Network
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7436653/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32874420 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.156.21157 |
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author | Okedo-Alex, Ijeoma Nkem Uneke, Chigozie Jesse Uro-Chukwu, Henry Chukwuemeka Akamike, Ifeyinwa Chizoba Chukwu, Onyedikachi Echefu |
author_facet | Okedo-Alex, Ijeoma Nkem Uneke, Chigozie Jesse Uro-Chukwu, Henry Chukwuemeka Akamike, Ifeyinwa Chizoba Chukwu, Onyedikachi Echefu |
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description | INTRODUCTION: cervical cancer is a leading cause of death among Nigerian women. Women often require spousal support before attending cervical cancer screening services. This study assessed married men´s knowledge and attitude towards male involvement in cervical cancer screening of their wives. METHODS: a cross-sectional study using a mixed methods approach was conducted among 245 married men in Izzi, Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, South-East Nigeria. Quantitative data collected using structured, interviewer-administered questionnaires and qualitative data from focus group discussions were triangulated. Data analysis was done using IBM SPSS version 20. Qualitative findings were analysed using thematic analysis. RESULTS: the mean knowledge of cervical cancer was 2.06±0.55. Only 2.9% of the respondents had adequate knowledge of risk factors for cervical cancer. Up to 89.8% were willing to approve screening for their spouses. Majority (76.3%) considered screening important in cervical cancer prevention, while 91.4% were willing to pay for the screening test. Most of them exhibited patriarchal tendencies and insisted that their wives must obtain their consent before screening as depicted by the statement “It is what I tell her that she will do”. Previous spousal screening was a predictor of good knowledge (OR = 10.94, 95% CI = 2.44-48.93; P=0.002). CONCLUSION: married men in this study had poor knowledge of cervical cancer. However, they were willing to support cervical cancer screening conditional on their pre-information and consent. Awareness creation activities on cervical cancer screening should incorporate active engagement of husbands in order to promote screening uptake by their wives. |
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spelling | pubmed-74366532020-08-31 “It is what I tell her that she will do”: a mixed methods study of married men’s knowledge and attitude towards supporting their wives’ cervical cancer screening in rural South-East Nigeria Okedo-Alex, Ijeoma Nkem Uneke, Chigozie Jesse Uro-Chukwu, Henry Chukwuemeka Akamike, Ifeyinwa Chizoba Chukwu, Onyedikachi Echefu Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: cervical cancer is a leading cause of death among Nigerian women. Women often require spousal support before attending cervical cancer screening services. This study assessed married men´s knowledge and attitude towards male involvement in cervical cancer screening of their wives. METHODS: a cross-sectional study using a mixed methods approach was conducted among 245 married men in Izzi, Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, South-East Nigeria. Quantitative data collected using structured, interviewer-administered questionnaires and qualitative data from focus group discussions were triangulated. Data analysis was done using IBM SPSS version 20. Qualitative findings were analysed using thematic analysis. RESULTS: the mean knowledge of cervical cancer was 2.06±0.55. Only 2.9% of the respondents had adequate knowledge of risk factors for cervical cancer. Up to 89.8% were willing to approve screening for their spouses. Majority (76.3%) considered screening important in cervical cancer prevention, while 91.4% were willing to pay for the screening test. Most of them exhibited patriarchal tendencies and insisted that their wives must obtain their consent before screening as depicted by the statement “It is what I tell her that she will do”. Previous spousal screening was a predictor of good knowledge (OR = 10.94, 95% CI = 2.44-48.93; P=0.002). CONCLUSION: married men in this study had poor knowledge of cervical cancer. However, they were willing to support cervical cancer screening conditional on their pre-information and consent. Awareness creation activities on cervical cancer screening should incorporate active engagement of husbands in order to promote screening uptake by their wives. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7436653/ /pubmed/32874420 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.156.21157 Text en Copyright: Ijeoma Nkem Okedo-Alex et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Okedo-Alex, Ijeoma Nkem Uneke, Chigozie Jesse Uro-Chukwu, Henry Chukwuemeka Akamike, Ifeyinwa Chizoba Chukwu, Onyedikachi Echefu “It is what I tell her that she will do”: a mixed methods study of married men’s knowledge and attitude towards supporting their wives’ cervical cancer screening in rural South-East Nigeria |
title | “It is what I tell her that she will do”: a mixed methods study of married men’s knowledge and attitude towards supporting their wives’ cervical cancer screening in rural South-East Nigeria |
title_full | “It is what I tell her that she will do”: a mixed methods study of married men’s knowledge and attitude towards supporting their wives’ cervical cancer screening in rural South-East Nigeria |
title_fullStr | “It is what I tell her that she will do”: a mixed methods study of married men’s knowledge and attitude towards supporting their wives’ cervical cancer screening in rural South-East Nigeria |
title_full_unstemmed | “It is what I tell her that she will do”: a mixed methods study of married men’s knowledge and attitude towards supporting their wives’ cervical cancer screening in rural South-East Nigeria |
title_short | “It is what I tell her that she will do”: a mixed methods study of married men’s knowledge and attitude towards supporting their wives’ cervical cancer screening in rural South-East Nigeria |
title_sort | “it is what i tell her that she will do”: a mixed methods study of married men’s knowledge and attitude towards supporting their wives’ cervical cancer screening in rural south-east nigeria |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7436653/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32874420 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.156.21157 |
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